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Walking Haines, the Inside Passage, Greater Alaska, and the Yukon, Canada 1 Your walking tour of downtown Haines begins at the Haines Visitor Center on 2nd Avenue between Main Street and the Take a Haines Highway. Inside the log cabin that was built in the 1970’s, you’ll find information about walking Haines, the Inside Passage, greater Alaska, and the Yukon, Canada. tour of You’ll also meet local residents who are happy to share their love and knowledge of Haines and Alaska with you. Alaska Native Brotherhood downtown and Sisterhood Hall Diagonally to the right as you leave the Visitor Center is the Alaska Native Haines Brotherhood and Sisterhood (ANB/ANS) Hall. The formation of the Native organization in the early 1900’s led to the Alaska civil rights movement and continues as a social and philanthropic organization. It’s also where Bingo Nights happen! As you walk to the right toward 1st Avenue you’ll notice our local clinic, which is administered by SEARHC (Southeast Alaska Regional HAINES VISITOR CENTER Healthcare Consortium), a nonprofit 122 Second Ave. Haines, AK 99827 tribal health consortium of 18 Native (907) 766-6418 communities serving the health interests www.visithaines.com of the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and other Native and non-Native people. 2 1st Avenue As you continue toward 2nd Compass Coffeehouse downstairs. Next door Across from the clinic, located on 1st Avenue, you’ll pass the Pryor is one of the local watering holes, the Fogcutter Avenue is the site of the original Building which was completed in Bar. It, too, was built in 1923 and served Haines Mission which is now 1923 and was recently initially as a hardware store and later as the occupied by the Haines renovated into the Rusty local gas station. Presbyterian Church. Be sure to see the Mission bell that was cast in 1880 to commemorate the Mission’s founding. Life on Main Street Continue north on 1st until you hit Main Street. The oldest part of town started on Main Street near the boat harbor. It seems fitting that a museum chronicling Haines history be located overlooking the harbor. The Haines Sheldon Museum started as a private collection of artifacts and memorabilia of the area by prominent citizen Steve Sheldon more than 80 years ago. The current Don’t forget to visit the building opened in 1979 and today houses a American Bald Eagle Foundation on the corner of 2nd Avenue nationally accredited collection of Native and and the Haines Highway. local art, Gold Rush mementos and Jack Dalton stories. Many of the buildings on the north side of the street date back to the early 1900’s, and has served as a hardware store, a drug store, a restaurant and the Post Office. It was owned by George Vogel, the first mayor after Haines was incorporated as a city on January 24, 1910. Get Hammered in Haines Next to Alaska Wild Bear Photography is The Hammer Museum. Although it is not a historic building, what’s inside reveals the history of homosapiens through the lens of hammers—1800 of them. The Local Skyscraper Haines Assisted Living The Smell of Roasting Coffee Haines’ tallest building stands A few more steps and your at Before turning left on Mission Street, you might proudly on the corner of 2nd Haines Assisted Living, which was want to visit our local deli, coffee roasting Avenue and Main Street and is built in 2009. Stop in for a visit. company and organic grocer, Mountain Market. known as the Chisel Building. Turn left on 3rd Avenue A Park for All Ages It was completed in 1916 by Joe As you walk down 3rd Avenue As you continue along Mission Street, you’ll Chisel and served as a hotel with you’ll see Sacred Heart Catholic notice the Haines Senior Village and the Haines backroom gambling, where rooms rented for Church and pass Dalton Street, named after Jack Senior Center, which is bordered by Tlingit Park. $3.50 a day. During Haines’ boom and bust Dalton, early entrepreneur, pioneer and the man Next to the Senior Center is the economy it has housed a variety of businesses behind the 246-mile Dalton Trail that starts in children’s play area which and currently is the home to Alaska Rod’s. Haines and ends at Fort Selkirk in the Yukon. connects to the picnic area, A Brothel in Haines on 2nd Avenue? Main Street: The Art of Shopping walking trail, restrooms, and a The red building on the left side of meets the Art of Brewing historic cemetery with the street has been entertaining Main Street. Our local shopping district and headstones dating to the 1880’s. guests for more than 100 years, residence of the Haines Brewing Company—A A Gold Rush Artifact first as the Hotel DeFRANCE at perfect distraction before Near the cemetery looking out towards the the turn of the century; a continuing on 3rd Avenue waterfront is a Keystone restaurant, dance hall, brothel and to the Haines Borough Driller, a steam-powered, bootleg joint in the 1930’s; and eventually as a Public Library, Tlingit Park portable drilling machine that restaurant and bar in the 1950’s. The Bamboo and Lookout Point. was used for gold Room and Pioneer Bar has been owned by the To the right you’ll find prospecting in the early Tengs’ family for more than 65 years. Field2frame Productions, The Hair Shop, 1900’s. It was found at Across the street, the building now called Bell’s Olerud’s Market Center (for all your grocery, Dalton Cache, 42 miles north Store—a great place to buy flowers and gifts— outdoor gear and apparel needs), The Alaska of Haines. Take the steps in started life as the City Hall and Fire Station until Sport Shop and Miles Furniture. La Loft. To the front to go down to Front they were moved in 1977 to the current location left is Talia’s Treasures, The Moosterious Street and Lookout Park, at the Haines Highway between 2nd and 3rd Emporium, Ampersand AK, the Frontier which is graced with a totem pole representing Avenues. As you continue north, you’ll notice Tradesmen, Howser’s IGA, Caroline’s Closet, the Eagle clan and further down the sidewalk the Haines’ Soboleff-McRae Veterans Village and and the Alaska Liquor Store. Currently, Main towards the PC Dock is a memorial for local Wellness Center, which had its grand opening Street is also our local art gallery. Make sure to residents who lost their lives fishing Alaskan 9/11, 2014, and the dedication of its check out the window displays. You might just see waters. totem pole and sign in 2017. something you can’t live without. Boat Harbor Left, Cruise Ship Dock Inviting Historic Homes The Best Small & Historic Fort Seward Right Next to the Center is The Inn Library in America If you decide to walk back towards Main Street— at Haines which was originally On 3rd Avenue you’ll to the left if you’re facing the water—you’ll see built in 1917 by Tim Vogel, a find the offices of the Haines’ picturesque small boat harbor where the notorious entrepreneur and former member of Haines Borough, our local fishermen, Alaska Fjordlines and Kraken Soapy Smith’s Skagway gang. He also built the local government; Charters dock their boats. The tall building is the cannery at Letnikof Cove, still in Chilkoot Indian Association, the Ice House where fishermen can buy ice to keep operation today as Haines Packing tribal administration for Chilkoot their fish cold and fresh. Co. tribal members; and the award-winning public A Prohibition Favorite library. In 2005 the Haines Borough Public Next door is the O’Dell-Tagg Library received Library Journal’s annual Best At Front Street and the end of Main Street is the House, built in 1912 and once Small Library in America award co-sponsored Harbor Bar and Lighthouse Restaurant, originally heralded as “one of the prettiest by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In built in 1907. During Prohibition it was known as homes in Haines.” It is now a private residence and 2017, the Library was chosen as a finalist for the a “card room.” Even if you don’t feel like a drink, the storefront of Second Nature. National Medal for Museum and Library peek in and check out the bar brought from Service. Skagway during the Gold Rush era. Turn Left on Union Avenue A Story Worthy of a Totem Fort Seward to the Right On your left, hidden behind the fence and As you continue south on 3rd Avenue snuggled between the Assembly of God you’ll see a 20-foot totem that tells the Walking to the right Church and Haines Assisted Living is the library’s history beginning with a along the waterfront Lindholm House. It was built by carpenter and crouching female figure holding the box will take you to historic cabinet maker Charles Lindholm, a Swedish of knowledge to represent the Haines Fort Seward and the immigrant who arrived in Haines at the end of Women’s Club, which started a lending cruise ship dock. This is a great area for spotting the Gold Rush. library in 1928. marine life and birds, and beachcombing. BREWERY .
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